Chapter 449: Returning to the Capital (5)
“Crown Prince, you must be joking again.” The girl frowned and said arrogantly, “Back then, the Xie family was also above the law, but now after Xie Jingxing died, they are in a complete mess. The Shen family might be the second Xie family.”
The man smiled and did not continue after the girl.
On the other side, someone was leaning against the building. The lush evergreen trees covered half of his figure, revealing only the corners of his golden robe. He held the teacup in front of him with one hand. His hand was handsome and strong with a white jade ring on his middle finger, making his entire hand look like it was carved out of jade.
The corners of his mouth slowly curled into a smile.
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The house Mo Qing found was across the street from Yanqing Alley. After passing through an alley, it would be the busiest restaurant in the south of the city. The location was very good. The landlord was also very easy to talk to. Luo Xueyan and Shen Xin were both straightforward people, and the price given by the landlord was fair. That night, they decided to buy the house.
As soon as they settled down, a eunuch from the palace sent an imperial edict to Shen Xin to ask him to go to the palace to meet the emperor the next day. Emperor Wen Hui was impatient, obviously because the situation was really critical now. After receiving the imperial edict and busying himself with unpacking the things, it was already late. After dinner, because they had been travel-worn for a long time, they couldn’t wait to hit the bed.
Shen Miao and Luo Tan lived in the adjacent courtyard. The house here was not as spacious as the Shen Mansion, but it was considered neat and clean. However, Shen Xin and Shen Qiu felt a little disappointed that they could not train in the courtyard. Luo Xueyan and Luo Tan were extremely satisfied. Shen Miao had never cared about living conditions, so she naturally had no objections.
At night, Luo Tan sneaked into Shen Miao’s room to talk.
Luo Tan sat on Shen Miao’s bed with a cloak around her and said, “Little Cousin, I can’t sleep. Can we talk for a while?”
“What do you want to talk about?” Shen Miao asked Jingzhe and the others to leave while she lit the oil lamp. At this moment, she was in no mood to sleep, so she casually found a book and placed it on the table to flip through, but she did not read it seriously.
“I didn’t expect the capital to be like this.” Luo Tan’s tone was filled with both disappointment and joy. “I grew up in Spring City and thought that the outside world was the same as Spring City. I didn’t expect the capital to be bigger and livelier than what the storyteller said. Cousin, I’m a little afraid.”
Shen Miao smiled. “What’s there to be afraid of?”
“I’m new to this place, so of course I’m afraid. Although Brother Ling is also here, this is not Spring City we are familiar with. Cousin, is there a time when you feel afraid like this? Back then, when Aunt and Uncle were in the northwest and left you alone in the capital, weren’t you afraid?”
“There’s nothing to be afraid of,” Shen Miao replied indifferently. Back then, staying in the Shen family was not scary to her, because in her eyes, the people of the Shen family were all her family. Was there a time when she felt afraid because she was new to the place? That was back when she was in the State of Qin.
At the thought of the State of Qin, Shen Miao’s eyes narrowed. She suddenly thought of what the waiter had said today. The people from the State of Qin and the Daliang Dynasty were both here. In her previous life, at this time, she saw the Crown Prince of the State of Qin and the people from the Daliang Dynasty. At that time, the Daliang Dynasty was already showing some ambitions to annex Ming Qi. The Ming Qi royal family was afraid, so in order to counterattack the Daliang Dynasty, after Fu Xiuyi ascended the throne, he formed an alliance with the State of Qin and sent Shen Miao, the empress, to the State of Qin as hostage. The Crown Prince of the State of Qin, Huangfu Hao, was a person with a vicious heart and, for some reason, liked to go against Shen Miao. Princess Ming An was even more arrogant and terrifying. Many of her difficult and humiliating days in the State of Qin were caused by this pair of siblings.
